Author Archives: Chuck Ross

Chuck Ross December 12, 2018Comments Off on Meet The Board Of The Fusion GPS-Linked Group Investigating Trump

A mysterious nonprofit group backed in part by George Soros and linked to Fusion GPS has investigated President Donald Trump and possible Russian interference. The Democracy Integrity Project has largely remained a mystery, but The Daily Caller News Foundation has learned new details about the group’s board of directors. One board member is an attorney who has worked closely with Fusion GPS ...

Chuck Ross December 12, 2018Comments Off on National Enquirer Parent Company Settled With Feds Over Payment To Alleged Trump Mistress

Prosecutors in New York revealed Wednesday that they reached a “non-prosecution agreement” with American Media Inc., the parent company of the National Enquirer, over a $150,000 payment made to a woman who claimed she had an affair with President Donald Trump. “As a part of the agreement, AMI admitted that it made the $150,000 payment in concert with a candidate’s ...

Chuck Ross December 12, 2018Comments Off on Michael Cohen Sentenced To 36 Months In Prison

Michael Cohen, the former personal attorney for Donald Trump, was sentenced to three years in prison by a judge in New York on Wednesday. The sentence, handed down by U.S. District Court Judge William Pauley, is lower than prosecutors’ recommendation that the longtime Trump fixer receive slightly less than between 51 and 63 months in prison. Pauley cited a “smorgasbord” ...

Chuck Ross December 12, 2018Comments Off on Andrew McCabe Urged Michael Flynn To Meet With FBI Agents Without Lawyers

Andrew McCabe urged Michael Flynn to meet with FBI agents without White House attorneys present, according to a court filing submitted Tuesday in the special counsel’s probe. McCabe and other FBI officials also decided not to provide a warning to Flynn about penalties regarding lying to the FBI. Though Flynn’s lawyers are suggesting that he was trapped into lying to ...

A federal judge on Tuesday ordered Stormy Daniels to pay nearly $300,000 in legal fees to President Trump over a defamation lawsuit dismissed on Oct. 15. James Otero, a judge in the District of Northern California, ordered Daniels to pay $293,052, just shy of the amount that Trump sought as repayment for legal fees from the case. (RELATED: Judge Dismisses ...

Maria Butina, a 29-year-old Russian gun rights activist, is preparing to change her “not guilty” plea to charges that she worked as a foreign agent of the Kremlin in the U.S., her lawyers informed a federal judge on Monday. Butina’s attorney asked the judge presiding over the case for a change of plea hearing on Tuesday or Wednesday. “The parties ...

Chuck Ross December 9, 2018Comments Off on Dossier Was Unverified Before And After FBI Used It To Obtain Spy Warrants

Former FBI Director James Comey testified to Congress on Friday that the bureau had not verified the dossier when it used the salacious document to apply for spy warrants against former Trump campaign adviser Carter Page Comey said it was “not necessary” for the FBI to validate the sources that dossier author Christopher Steele used to compile his report The ...

Chuck Ross December 9, 2018Comments Off on FBI Probe Initially Focused On Four Americans

James Comey made the surprise revelation in his congressional testimony on Friday that the FBI opened investigations into four Trump associates in late July 2016 It was previously known that four Trump advisers were the focus of the FBI probe, but it was not known that they were targeted at the outset of the investigation It was previously believed that ...

Chuck Ross December 8, 2018Comments Off on Lindsey Graham Says He Will ‘Get To The Bottom’ Of FISA Abuse As Senate Judiciary Chairman

Lindsey Graham pledged Saturday to continue an investigation into the FBI’s alleged abuse of the federal surveillance court Graham is poised to take over as Senate Judiciary Committee, where he will have oversight of the FBI, Justice Department and federal court system Republicans have accused the FBI of mishandling the infamous Steele dossier to obtain warrants to spy on former ...

Chuck Ross December 8, 2018Comments Off on Does Mueller’s Latest Filing In The Michael Cohen Case Show Collusion?

President Trump is claiming that a memo released by Special Counsel Robert Mueller regarding information provided by Michael Cohen “totally clears the president” of collusion allegations Trump’s critics disagreed, noting that Mueller’s filing reveals new details of contacts between Cohen and Russians, while making vague statements about “useful information” that Cohen gave prosecutors The Mueller filing does not say that ...

Federal prosecutors in Manhattan recommended on Friday a “substantial” prison sentence for Michael Cohen, the former Trump attorney who pleaded guilty in August to tax evasion, bank fraud and illegal campaign contributions. Cohen, 52, was seeking a sentence of time served in the case, citing the former Trump fixer’s substantial cooperation with investigators in New York and in the special ...

Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani told CNN Friday that the special counsel’s office does not believe Paul Manafort’s denials regarding President Donald Trump. Giuliani claimed that prosecutors believe Trump had advance knowledge of an infamous meeting held at Trump Tower with a group of Russians on June 9, 2016, according to CNN. Special counsel Robert Mueller accused Manafort on Nov. 26 of ...

Chuck Ross December 7, 2018Comments Off on Nunes: FBI Officials Knew Of ‘Really Bad And Nefarious Activity’ By Christopher Steele And Associates

An FBI and Justice Department email chain shows that top government officials knew that dossier author Christopher Steele and his associates “were up to some really bad and nefarious activity,” House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes said Thursday. In an interview on Fox News, Nunes claimed that the email constitutes “the first clear evidence” that the FBI committed a “major ...

Chuck Ross December 6, 2018Comments Off on All Signs Point To Plea Negotiations For Alleged Russian Agent, Maria Butina

A flurry of court filings over the past few weeks suggests that alleged Russian agent Maria Butina is nearing a plea agreement with federal prosecutors. Prosecutors and attorneys for Butina held an impromptu conference call on Thursday to discuss the status of the case. According to reporters present at the federal courthouse in Washington, D.C., Butina’s lawyers said that a ...

Chuck Ross December 6, 2018Comments Off on Report: FBI Emails Show Intelligence Community Had Concerns About Steele Dossier

FBI officials discussed intelligence community concerns about the infamous Steele dossier in a lengthy email thread in October 2016, according to a new report The FBI relied heavily on the dossier to obtain warrants to spy on former Trump campaign adviser Carter Page But Republicans have questioned whether the FBI relied on unverified or inaccurate intelligence to obtain the warrants ...